Three adjacent buildings at 9 West Butler Avenue, 14-22 North Main Street, and 10 North Main Street, were recently sold by Ambler Station 1, LLC for $2.8 million to Butler & Main, LLC, an entity associated with Trevose-based Korman Commercial Properties.
The buildings involved are home to The Pizza Box, No Bare Walls, Beyond the Jewel Box, San Martin Market, Viva Express, and Analog Dream, along with second floor apartments. There are other buildings intermixed with these three building that have different owners and were not part of the sale. Businesses in these uninvolved buildings are Harry’s Taproom, Paper Dolls, and Tattoo Galaxy.
In 2021, Ambler Station 1 announced a plan to raze the existing structures and redevelop the property into a mixed-use development with residential apartments or townhomes above retail. That plan never moved forward. Korman plans to update the buildings and make improvements, but essentially keep the same layout.
“We’ve had our eye on the property, which we’re calling Butler & Main, for a long time,” shared Harry Feldman and Drew Winig, vice presidents of Korman Commercial Properties. “We spent years in conversation with the prior ownership before the off-market sale of this three-parcel assemblage along Butler Avenue, Main Street and Short Race Street came together. As Ambler residents, we know this corner well, and we’ve always seen it as one of the best retail locations in town: right at Main and Main, with on-grade parking, and just steps from the Ambler train station. We’re not coming in with big announcements. We want to take good care of it, freshen it up, and make improvements that fit the character of Downtown Ambler. We’re in this for the long haul, and we intend to make Butler & Main a landmark that Ambler can be proud of.”
Ambler Station 1 is an entity associated with Station Partners, the developer who successful reimagined the former BASF factory, just outside Ambler Borough in Lower Gwynedd, into a mixed use campus.
In June, AroundAmbler.com reported that the former Deck’s Hardware building was purchased by an entity tied to Korman Communities. Korman Communtities and Korman Commercial Properties aren’t the same company, but they do share a common history of being operated by descendents of Hyman Korman, who began developing property in Philadelphia in 1919.
Photo: Station Partners